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The articles we select for Evidence-Based Mental Health must pass two stages: first they must pass our basic validity criteria and then the editors assess each article for clinical relevance. A number of articles meet the inclusion criteria but are not abstracted due to lack of space. We will highlight the most interesting of these here and list the rest.
"A gigantic asylum is a gigantic evil, and figuratively speaking a manufactory of chronic insanity." An observation by John Arlidge on the large psychiatric hospitals being built in Victorian England but the sentiment could be equally applied to the overcrowded prisons of the 21st century. Approximately 25% of sentenced men in prison in the UK, and over 40% of sentenced women, have been estimated, using clinical criteria, to require psychiatric treatment or further assessment. The closure of inpatient beds, failure of community services and in the US mandatory sentencing for
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